Polymers
AssigneeThe Secretary of State for Defence DSTL
InventorsElizabeth Anne Howlett Hall, Kawulia Tolefe Hunter
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Abstract
A polymer having a plurality of 5–6 membered unsaturated rings which may be the same or different, linked together by way of linker chains to form a backbone, at least some of said 5–6 membered unsaturated rings carrying a ligand. Polymers of this nature can act as DNA mimics and as supports for use in oligonucleotide production.
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A polymer having a plurality of 5–6 membered unsaturated rings which may be the same or different, linked together by way of linker groups to form a backbone, at least some of said 5–6 membered unsaturated rings carrying a ligand, wherein the ligand is selected from the group consisting of nucleobases, nucleobase binding groups and DNA intercalators.
A polymer having a plurality of 5–6 membered unsaturated rings which may be the same or different, linked together by way of linker groups to form a backbone, at least some of said 5–6 membered unsaturated rings carrying a ligand, wherein the ligand allows the polymer to form hybridization interactions with DNA or RNA molecules.
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